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Excercise in Style for September 2005: Let there be Light

submission date 01 to 30 September 2005

[EDIT, theme changed]

rules:
IMPORTANT: There are no prizes. This is not a challenge.
1. all members are urged to participate with photos taken in the current month
1B. all make and model of camera accepted, FSLR, DSLR, P&S, pin hole, MF, LF
1C. All method of Post Processing (PP) allowed- unless 'theme' state otherwise
2. one (1) image per member
3. assignment to run the length of month.
4. all images for this assignment in this thread
5. you may do more PP after posting your image
6. first person who post gets to choose theme for next month
7. thats about it!

..bumped..

With all due respect, can anyone explain this theme? Photography is all about the light. Seeing monthly themes as lessons and exersises, I think you guys should be bit more specific

"you guys"???

Mikhail... Just submit the first photo and you can set the theme next month

Well we could always edit Embi's post to say a different theme, but we probably won't because hey... it's his idea. Got a better one?

And you can work with the theme... just be creative.

leek wrote:"you guys"???

Mikhail... Just submit the first photo and you can set the theme next month

I meant genji and kpolak, saying "you guys" because one offered few themes, and another one selected one of them

Nnnnsic wrote:Well we could always edit Embi's post to say a different theme, but we probably won't because hey... it's his idea. Got a better one?

Hmm. Did I say "bad idea"? I just thought there is too wide interpretation in this particular theme and as it was invented as a sort of exersise, IMO, theme should be bit more specific.

I proposed this subject because I like idea of previous one with wide interpetation and I would like push into this direction harder.

Somebody would say 'this one is easy', but closer inpection reveals that to make it unusual, original will not be that easy. I hope this subject will pump up creativity and really improve technical skills. That is a challange and I hope to see stunning shots of Light

Regards,

K.Polak

[quote="genji"]Excercise in Style for August 2005: Let there be Light

shouldnt this be September?

Are these exercises for creativity or improving technical skills ?

If the latter, I'd be interested to see topics such as DOF, High ISO, Exposure Compensation, etc...

These would still leave it up to the creativity of everyone to express themselves, but would also give a solid grounding as to where we are all coming from. It would also be beneficial for those less-experienced to gain knowledge and learn from the more-experienced of the members here.

Just a suggestion...(and before anyone comments, I would post the 1st image, so I could choose October's topic - but by the time I get home tonight and take a photo, I'm sure someone will have beaten me to it)

krpolak wrote:That is a challange and I hope to see stunning shots of Light

Actually, this explains everything and I have my own interpretation of the theme inside of my head. Before it didn't make any sense for me. But I won't say it will be easy .....

Thanks, Krystian!

Aussie Dave wrote:If the latter, I'd be interested to see topics such as DOF, High ISO, Exposure Compensation, etc...

These would still leave it up to the creativity of everyone to express themselves, but would also give a solid grounding as to where we are all coming from. It would also be beneficial for those less-experienced to gain knowledge and learn from the more-experienced of the members here.

I think it was Gary's idea and he mentioned it when we discussed monthly themes initially, so, it might be just different sort of exersises

OK - my image was removed by the hacker and that's ok because I was going to change it anyway - I've had a better idea...
So we have a blank sheet of paper again and the first one to submit an image gets to choose next month's theme.

OK... I gave you all a chance to be first to submit... here's my 2nd entry for the "Let there be light" exercise...

Mine is themed around moonlight... I was going to enter this in the 10-second exposure competition, but I came up with something better...

This was actually the first photo I took with my new Gitzo tripod... It is a photo of my neighbour's house by the light of the moon... I liked it... I'll call it High Moon - because the shadows that you see are from the moonlight...

Leek - great shot, thats one hell of a moon giving such crisp shadows.

my own idea has to wait till weekend, given the lack of response to the thread so far i 'd kind of wondered if i'd get in first, alas, twas not to be......this time

Here is my offering.


d50, 55mm, f7.1, 1/800 sec, iso 200

Cheers, John D

OOOOO-EEEEE JED,

That's more like it!! I can hear Cat Stevens somewhere in that shot singing Morning Has Broken.

I think that there is a dynamic to the expression Let There Be Light - possibly due to the conditioning we have from Biblical reference - which differentiates it from let there be illumination. In this shot you have given the bursting free of light from the shroud of darkness an almost active and festive personification.

The silhouetted dwellings and structures do a lot for me also. They represent a community rather than just inhabitants and they prompted recollections of Dylan Thomas who also gave great character to breaking morning light in Under Milk Wood where 'it is night neddying among the snuggeries of babies' and, from where we are, only we can hear their dreams. This is a gem. I love it, thanks for posting.

Cheers,

My first post for a comp/expresion session




I am not sure if PP is ok I croped and adjusted contrast.....

Wow, Sheetshooter, thanks for your observations. I think you understand what I was trying to achieve better than I did myself!

Was loosely trying to capture natures splendor, light on the edge of cloud, and movement, birds on the wing, against industry (man) lying dormant.

Another song comes to my mind as well, from Jethro Tull, "skating away on the thin ice of a new day" .

Thanks again for your encouraging words.

Cheers, John D

Just what I needed John,

A reminder of Jethro Tull on a day when I learned that John Fogarty is coming to town.

No wonder I never wanted to grow up!!

Olrac,

Your shot takes me back to the promise of foreboding of a rainbow at dawn when I lived in melbourne. Don't get me wrong; I love melbourne and would prefer to live there but I'm sure you know how it goes.


Cheers,

Took this lying in the backyard looking up at the sun from behind a Lomandra longifolia (spiny headed matt rush)- Let there be Light



d70, 105mm, f45, 1/80, iso 200

my entry for ES September: Let There Be Light:



This is a macro shot of a light bulb outside, catching the reflections.
EXIF:
Sigma 70-300 APO II Super Macro
300mm (macro) - handheld
1/125sec
f5.6
ISO200

...and my sensor isn't dirty, all the spots at the top of the pic are dirt etc. on the globe itself

blacknstormy wrote:Took this lying in the backyard looking up at the sun from behind a Lomandra longifolia (spiny headed matt rush)- Let there be Light



d70, 105mm, f45, 1/80, iso 200

Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Matt Was pretty pleased with the result - but was seeing serious stars for an hour after !!!

Here is my slack entry, wasn't going to post it after the others.
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Oh well here ya go
Wheat rows on the sunset.




MATT

Here is my offering.

I think I'll call it "Change of Shift"



Cheers
Dean

This might help. Its on in 45 minutes.

Light Fantastic - Part 1: Let There Be Light
8.30pm, SBS
Sunday 18 September

This four-part science series explores the phenomenon that surrounds and affects nearly every aspect of our lives, light. Greek and Arab scholars and later Europeans such as Descartes and Newton all tried to understand light to gain a better understanding of God. Tonight's first episode examines origins of modern science that came from the desire to penetrate the divine nature of light. Presented by Cambridge scholar Simon Schaffer.

Well spotted Embi - I was just about to post this myself... It was a fascinating overview of the early research into light... It continues next week with a look at the first lenses... Put it in your diary...

Blacknstormy,

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the simplicty, beauty and depth of your photograph. That is not Photo Of The Week material, it is Photo Of The Year!!

I meditated on that picture last night and again this morning. Through it I gain understanding in a similar way to reading Kahlil Gibran. In fact, I was sure that KG had made reference to the dewdrop in The Prophet but it seems he did not but he does express the sentiment that this picture rouses in me:

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end, And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning. Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal.

And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?

I'm totally in awe!! Thank you.

Well I am pretty new to all of this and wasn't going to post after seeing every one elses shots! But we are all encouraged to submit.

This was taken at about 10.30 at night from my front yard (bloody powerlines). Heaps of low cloud therefore no visable lightning strikes.

Like I said only new so still learning!



and Blacknstormy.... I think its time you changed your Sig after that shot!!!

a different slant on the subject LOZ sigma 180

So far there are only 9 entries in this month's exercise!!!
Surely there must be some others out there...
Here are the entries so far...





I've added these to a gallery on my Smugmug site - if anyone objects to this, please let me know... Heath Bennett, your links seem to have gone dead - if you want to fix them, I'll add them to this gallery...

LET THERE BE LIGHT - WHEN WORLDS BEGIN

Regards,

K.Polak PS: Every subject can be extremly technical or extremly abstract or both. That depends only on us.

Derwent sunrise. One of the first images taken from my balcony while playing around with my 80-200 after it arrived last week.



D70, 80-200 f2.8 at 155mm, f8, 1/1250 sec

Okay....I may as well throw one into the mix here but it's one I posted recently as a Challenge 6 reject so some of you may have seen it already.

It was taken two Sunday evenings ago on the Vulture Street overpass, looking towards Brisbane CBD along the Captain Cook Bridge. Shutter was open for 10 seconds as I walked along the pavement, pointing the camera through the railings, which naturally didn't show up in the image. Red = tail lights, yellow = headlights, white = city lights.

"the light"

Only 13 entries for this month's Exercise in Style...
What's the matter?????
Very disappointing...


Hopefully the next theme willl inspire you...

Here are the complete entries for the September Challenge...

I'm looking forward to it John.

Great collection of perspectives here boys and girls. Thanks for sharing them and thank you, John, for keeping tabs on it all.

JIT...

Playing with spot metering and a whole lotta sun.